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... Fortune . 3dly , Moral Causes , and free Agents , or the Government of Mankind . 1. Natural Caufes , or God's Government of the Natural World , of the Heavens , and Earth , and Seas , and Air , and all things in them , which move and ...
... Fortune . 3dly , Moral Causes , and free Agents , or the Government of Mankind . 1. Natural Caufes , or God's Government of the Natural World , of the Heavens , and Earth , and Seas , and Air , and all things in them , which move and ...
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... Fortunes . The Wife Man obferved this long fince , 9. Eccl . 11. I returned and faw under the Sun , that the race is not to the swift , nor the battel to the ftrong , neither yet bread to the wife , nor yet riches to men of ...
... Fortunes . The Wife Man obferved this long fince , 9. Eccl . 11. I returned and faw under the Sun , that the race is not to the swift , nor the battel to the ftrong , neither yet bread to the wife , nor yet riches to men of ...
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... Fortune ? How can God Go- vern the World , or difpofe of Mens Lives and Fortunes without governing Chance , all unfeen , unknown and furprizing Events , which difap- point the Counfels of the Wife , and in a mo- ment unavoidably change ...
... Fortune ? How can God Go- vern the World , or difpofe of Mens Lives and Fortunes without governing Chance , all unfeen , unknown and furprizing Events , which difap- point the Counfels of the Wife , and in a mo- ment unavoidably change ...
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... Fortunes ; a powerful combination of Sinners , managed by fome crafty Politicians , would govern the World : But the ... Fortune a Goddefs , and attributed the Government of all things to her , begv πάντα Whereby they only fignified the ...
... Fortunes ; a powerful combination of Sinners , managed by fome crafty Politicians , would govern the World : But the ... Fortune a Goddefs , and attributed the Government of all things to her , begv πάντα Whereby they only fignified the ...
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... Fortunes of Men , the Fate of Kingdoms and Empires , the Suc- ceffes of War , the Changes of Government , are so often determined and brought about by the most visible Accidents ; when Chance de- feats the Wifeft Counfels , and the ...
... Fortunes of Men , the Fate of Kingdoms and Empires , the Suc- ceffes of War , the Changes of Government , are so often determined and brought about by the most visible Accidents ; when Chance de- feats the Wifeft Counfels , and the ...
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Page 250 - All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
Page 7 - Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether.
Page 62 - I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Page 426 - For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive ; And plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.
Page 395 - Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress ; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until that he have mercy upon us.
Page 6 - Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him, Upon them that hope in his mercy ; To deliver their soul from death, And to keep them alive in famine.
Page 136 - Righteous art Thou, O Lord, when I plead with Thee : yet let me talk with Thee of Thy judgments : wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
Page 336 - But Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you, that I may lay my hand upon Egypt, and bring forth mine armies, and my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments. 5 And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I stretch forth mine hand upon Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them.
Page 426 - The LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him, To all that call upon him in truth. He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: He also will hear their cry, and will save them.
Page 58 - The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.